12-Letter Words Containing C

Fireworks expert

Quacksalver

""Of or for a four-channel sound system in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other.""

""QUADRICEPS The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.""

Variant of quadraphonic .

One paralysed in every limb

Ones calling the plays

Monday morning pundits

Gridiron VIPs

Quarterdeck

""The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style.as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style.""

Quicksilver

Central aspect (of something)

The most perfect or typical example

Most vital part

Quitclaim

In a quixotic way.

QUIZZICAL Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.

Rabbinical

""RACEMIZE to change into racemic form, also RACEMISE""

RACETRACKER racetrack

Racewalking

Fraudulent dealing

Dealing fraudulently

Tennis equipment from England and Spain used by boxers working with criminals

Racquetball

RADICALISE

RADICALIZE

Radiocarbon

Person associated with (-ist)

The study of the effects of radiation and radioisotopes on an ecological population or community.

""RADIOGRAPH A picture produced by the R\'94ntgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.""

RADIOLOGIC

Allowing the passage of x-rays or other radiation; not radiopaque.

Having effects on living tissue similar to those produced by radiation: a radiomimetic chemical.

A nuclide that exhibits radioactivity.

Radiotracer

Rude and boisterous

Uncontrollably exuberant; mutinous crab (anagram)

Overexuberant

Complex consequence (of an event)

Result of macaroni, if it cooks

Complicating consequence

Rancidness

Ranunculus

Oniony garnish for Snoop Dogg (wordplay)

All kings, mostly, to Mark Twain

Rarefaction

Process of making a treaty official

Constitution's approval process

Confirmation pleasure's no good (wordplay)

""RATIOCINATE To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.""

Ratiocinate

""RATIOCINATE To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.""

ACCELERATE To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; opposed to retard. retard.

Reaccession

Reaccredit

Reacquaint

ACTIVATING activate

Act of restoration to functioning state

ACTIVENESS The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

Reactivity

ALLOCATING allocate

Actual place for further distribution

Actual site for another share out

Actual site for a new allotment

Second coming (wordplay)

A return to view

Act of once more coming into sight

ARTICULATE Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

Confidence boosters scare as nurse gets jittery

The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

Rebroadcast

Obstinate in opposition

Not willing to accept discipline

Clatter in car turns out hard to handle

""CALCULATED Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.""

Recalculate

""Inflected form of CALIBRATED Inflected form of CALIBRATE To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.""

Recalibrate

CANALIZING canalize

Recantation

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Go over and back down again (wordplay)

Summarise yield again (wordplay)

Go over in summary

State sometimes entered by bankrupt business

Criminals' joint business in trouble when in this

Bankrupt state with his price ever changing

Recentness

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

Note its price (anagram)

Party host (wordplay)

Girl in the front office.

Recertify

Recessional

""CESSIONARY Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. as, a cessionary bankrupt.""

CHALLENGED having doubts expressed about its truth.

Rechallenge

Rechannel

CHANNELLED channel

""CHARGEABLE That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.""

Recharter

Rechristen

RECIDIVIST One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal.

""In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.""

Returned (favour)

Responded (to gesture) with a corresponding action

I accept order mistakenly went to and fro

Method's restraining bad actor's interchanges

RECIPROCATE To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

""Inflected form of CIRCULATED Inflected form of CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Recirculate

Absence of caution

Irresponsibilty

Projects that make wasteland usable

CLASSIFIED classify

Reclassify

Recognition

Capable of being recognized.

COGNIZABLY In a cognizable manner.

""An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal. recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.""

Recollect

Memory of soldiers gathering

It's about picking up gallery pictures from memory

Remembrance

COLONIZING colonize

Recombinant

COMMENCING commence

Recommend

To commission again; to give a new commission to.

""Mnt, Recommittal A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.""

Recommittal

Recommit

""RECOMPENSE To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.""

CONCEIVING conceive

CONCEPTION The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

Able to be brought back into friendship

Could be made up to disturb a noble cleric

CONDENSING condense

Recondition

""Inflected form of CONFIGURED Inflected form of CONFIGURE To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.""

Reconfigure

Reconfirm

Reconnect

Reconnect

Reconnoiter

""RECONNOITRE To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.""

Studies the field and Orion's recent form

Reconquer

To consecrate anew or again.

Reviewed and censored dire play

Assessed once more

Lie about Conservative linked with Marxist gets reviewed

Reassemble from parts

Restructure

Makes over.

Tory leader cuts corners - misguided reforms

Recontact

Recontour

A second conversion.

Reconvert

Act of reconveying.

Reconvict

Reconvict

CONVINCING convince

Recordation

Of drugs taken for enjoyment

(Of drugs) used for kicks

Like some drugs

""Inflected form of CRIMINATED Inflected form of CRIMINATE To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.""

Recriminate

Right greyish lineage cropping up again

Earthy smell from refuse tips is re-emergent

Note vulgar perfume breaking out once more

""RECRUDESCE To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.""

Recruitment

""CULTIVATED marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.as, cultivated tastes in art.""

Recultivate

Recumbency

Creating pure liquid is improving

Convalescence

Getting better with unorthodox cure, gym activity helping

""Tv, Recuperatory Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.""

DECORATING decorate

Process of doing up (room)

Redecorator

DEDICATING dedicate

""DEDICATION The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.""

DESCRIBING describe

Redirection

Rediscount

One snooker problem worked out again

Found again

Turned up again, highly respected around party

Rediscuss

Redistrict

""(→ auf +acc ) (Chem, fig ) → reduzierbar ; (Math) → zerlegbar ; drawing, scale → verkleinerbar, reduzierbar ; time → verkürzbar ; costs → herabsetzbar ; to be reducible to something → sich auf etw (acc) → reduzieren lassen""

Analysis down to basic constituents

One dealing in simple explanations

Manage to catch Ed Balls admitting current employment problems

Doubled, repeated

Reduplicate

Reeducation

Reemergence

Reenactment

Reencounter

ESCALATING escalate

ESCALATION

""EXPERIENCE Trial, as a test or experiment.""

Reflectance

""FLECTIONAL Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.""

Reflective

""REFLECTIVE Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. as, a reflective mirror.""

""REFLECTOR One who, or that which, reflects.""

Refractive

""REFRACTIVE Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.""

Refractory

In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.

Regeneracy

Reification

Dance trainer working with a new form (wordplay)

A terraced inn, done up and given a new lease of life

Reincarnate

""INDICTMENT The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.""

Reinfection

Reinjection

""Inflected form of INOCULATED Inflected form of INOCULATE To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.""

Reinoculate

Reinspect

Further examination

Reinsurance

""Inflected form of INTRODUCED Inflected form of INTRODUCE To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawingroom. as, to introduce a person into a drawingroom.""

Reintroduce

Relacquer

""Inflected form of LANDSCAPED Inflected form of LANDSCAPE A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.""

Relandscape

Described by Einstein's theory

Relicensure

LUBRICATED smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction.

Relubricate

Reluctancy

Reluctation